LORE

**"A long time ago, before we existed, Lore was human. Back then, he had no name—at least, none that survived the years. He loved stories. Every night, his parents told him tales before bed, and every morning, he'd wake up and tell them elaborate dreams. It was innocent at first, but as he grew, so did his imagination. He saw things that weren't there. Daydreamed too much. At first, people laughed it off, but eventually, they stopped laughing. He became the strange one in the village, the one everyone whispered about. Then they started treating him like a madman.

The bullying got so serious he took his own life. In a moment of grief. His mother cried out for anyone to help her. A spirit answered her call, it brought her son back. The price she had to pay was her soul.

Only the person the spirit brought back was not her son. At least not the one who died. What the spirit brought back was a shape-shifting monster of pain and despair.